The Republic of Ireland international headed home against Queens Park Rangers in the 6-0 demolition of the Loftus Road side.

And now he feels Newcastle will get more goals from set-pieces - something the Magpies were feeble at last season.

Clark said: “I was buzzing to score. I wasn’t too worried about Mitro in front of me. I just tried to keep my eye on the ball and make sure I got a good connection, and thankfully it went in.

“With the quality of the set-pieces coming in, we’ve always got a chance of getting on the end of them.

“Jonjo (Shelvey) and Matty (Ritchie) are brilliant with corners and free-kicks and we are a real threat from them now.

“We practice it in training and thankfully it came off out there and I managed to get my head on one.”

And reflecting on the win at QPR, Clark went on: “We knew it was going to be a tough game but we managed to get off to a good start and it just went from there.

“We looked dangerous, we created a lot of chances and we could have scored more, but more importantly, we managed to keep another clean sheet, which is something we really wanted to do.

“We knew that at 2-0, if QPR had got one back it would have been a totally different game. Thankfully we came out after half-time and got a couple more which did seal the game and then it was all about concentration and making the right decisions, which I felt we did.”